Buckle.



No. 767,171. PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. L. SANDERS.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1903, RENEWED JULY $1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES: INVENTOI? Zozzzls ,dk'lzzi'elw Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT @EETCE.

LOUIS SANDERS, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,171, dated August9, 1904.

Application filed July 15,1903. Renewed July 2, 1904.. Serial No.215,181. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, a citi- Zen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Buckle, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a buckle especially adaptedfor use in connection with Suspender-straps for cartridgebelts, butwhich may be used wherever a positively-locking tongueless belt can beadvantageously employed, and to so construct the buckle that it will belight and readily applied and when applied whereby the strap passedthrough the buckle can be quickly and conveniently adjusted and held inadjusted position without applying eyelets to the straps or producingapertures therein.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a strap and the improved buckleapplied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the strap and buckleon the line 22 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a transverse section takenpractically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. at is a front elevationof the buckle and the portion of the strap to which the buckle isapplied.

A represents a strap, and B a buckle applied to the strap. The buckleconsists of a skeleton body-frame 10, preferably rectangular in generalcontour, together with a rear bar 11, extending from end to end of theskeleton frame, the said bar 11 being located about centrally betweenthe longitudinal members of the frame and is attached to or is madeintegral with the end portions of the skeleton frame. The rear bar 11extends beyond the plane of the rear face of the skeleton body-frame 10,and on this bar 11 at various intervals prongs or spurs 12 are securedor made integral with the bar, the prongs or spurs extending forwardlyor outwardly.

In connection with the buckle described I employ a shank C for attachingthe buckle to an end portion of the strap A. This shank is constructed,preferably, of sheet metal bent upon itself to form front and rearmembers 13 and 1 1, and at the upper or bent portion of the shank aseries of recesses 15 is made, forming thereby a series of knuckles 16at such point. The recessed portion of the shank is passed over the rearbar 11 of the buckle, and the prongs or spurs 12 extend out through therecesses 15 in the shank. The knuckles l6 serve to journal the back bar11 of the buckle on the shank.

That portion of the strap A to which the buckle is to be attached ispassed between the members 13 and 14: of the shank and is held inposition within the said shank by rivets 17 or their equivalents, passedthrough the members 13 and 1 1 of the shank and likewise through thatportion of the strap between said members.

It will be observed that when a portion of the strap is passed throughthe skeleton bodyframe 10 it is carried over the prongs or spurs 12, andin so entering the strap in the bodyframe of the buckle the strap ispassed from the front outward through the frame of the buckle, thenceover the spurs orprongs, and then rearward through the said framebetween the opposite side and the rear bar 11. When a strap is so lacedor passed through the frame of the buckle, the greater the tensionapplied to the strap the more firmly will the strap be held in adjustedposition by said buckle, as the prongs of the buckle will engage withthe rear face of the strap, as is shown in Fig. 2, having strongfrictional engagement therewith; but such engagement will not in anymanner lacerate or tend to weaken the strap.

It is also obvious that the strap may be readily adjusted in the frameof the buckle by simply forcing the strap outward until that portion ofthe strap between the sides of the buckle is carried away'from or out ofengagement with the prongs or spurs, whereupon the buckle may be quicklyand conveniently slid up or down the strap, as occasion may demand. Thebuckle is very simple. It is durable and, as stated, may be readilyapplied to a strap. It is particularly well adapted for use inconnection with straps belonging to cartridge-belts or the accoutrementsof troops.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A buckle comprising a skeleton body-frame, a rear baroffset from the said frame and extending from end to end thereof, ashank in which the said rear bar is journaled, said shank being formedof a piece of flat material bent upon itself into U shape and having atits bend a series of recesses therein; the

spaces between said recesses forming knuckles embracing the rear bar,the end of the strap to which the buckle is permanently secured beingfixedly clamped between the parallel members of the U-shaped shank, anda series of forwardly-extending rigid prongs or spurs extending fromsaid bar through said recesses in the shank and projecting beyond theface thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS SANDERS.

W'itnesse's:

J. FRED. AOKER, JNo. M. BITTER.

